Lure of Song

Chapter 6

"I hate you," Tomoyo groaned as Eriol dragged her out of the Ravenclaw common room to train. "You almost killed me yesterday. Where did you get the idea that balls with wings should attack me?"

Eriol gave her a smile and continued pulling her towards the field obviously not intending to answer her question. "Quickly now, Sakura and Syaoran are waiting. We're going to have another mock battle today."

The girl groaned again and pulled herself and her companion to a stop. "NO! I will not fight them again. Can't you see I can't defeat Sakura if she has those song and voice cards of hers?"

"That's why I gave you a flute."

Knowing that she can't possibly win any argument with her mentor, she allowed him to resume dragging her towards the Quidditch Field. She just suddenly realized that she did not know what Quidditch was. "Hiiragizawa-kun, what does Quidditch mean? Is it a person or something?"

"It's a game; a very famous game in the wizarding world. You'll be able to see it tomorrow, I think," Eriol answered in a tone that declared the discussion about the topic to be over. He added another thing though. "I don't see why you don't know about it. Didn't anyone from the House tell you?"

Tomoyo gave him a grin and lowered her head to hide a blush that had just crept up her face. She gave a deep sigh and looked at her friend. "I'm not exactly a very sociable person, Hiiragizawa-kun."

Eriol looked mildly surprised for a split second before his neutral mask took over his face again. "I see. I didn't notice it back in Tomoeda. You seemed to be one of the most friendly people there."

Tomoyo brushed the thought away with a wave of her hand. "I'm comfortable in Tomoeda, having lived there all my life."

The sorcerer nodded in understanding and proceeded to walk in silence.

"Where did she get that flute thing of hers?" Sakura asked a very irritated Syaoran, who has been trying to avoid the blows of Eriol's newest creature: the Khnum. It was a giant with a man's body and a ram's head. It almost looked like a Taurus except it was much bigger and fiercer.

"Probably from the same idiot who created this monster," Syaoran cried out to her as he narrowly avoided another punch. "When does this thing tire?"

"Possibly never," the cardmistress answered him.

For once, Syaoran and Sakura seemed to be losing to the combined powers of Eriol and Tomoyo. Their main advantage of disabling Tomoyo's magic to function was lost due to the flute Tomoyo now used to transmit her power through instead of using her voice. The flute also allowed her to use new attacks by distorting the sound waves to create weapon-like energies.

Tomoyo was grinning wildly at her place on the air. After years of standing on the sidelines and watching her best friend get all the glory, she would be able to attain victory as well.

"She's playing with us," Sakura whined as she dodged another sound attack from Tomoyo. "Before we can actually get to her, we have to destroy this bull-thing first."

"I can see that," Syaoran said, trying to land an attack on the Khnum and failing. The amber-eyed boy spared a glance at the two hovering above them and saw the mage in deep meditation surrounded by a translucent black shield. An idea popped into the head of the future ruler of the Li clan. "We have to stop the source of the Khnum: Hiiragizawa."

Sakura nodded and took out a card to use.

Tomoyo continued her random attacks at the two when she noticed that they were gone. The Khnum looked around in confusion while the one controlling it furrowed his eyebrows. It seemed to Tomoyo that even the all-knowing Eriol could be deceived once in a while.

The mistress of sound looked around her surroundings suspiciously, trying to find out where their enemies had gone. Sakura's probably using the illusion card, she told herself, but where? At the moment she felt something gathering energy above her, she looked up just in time to see Syaoran, who was being held up by Sakura, about to attack Eriol with lightning.

"Eriol!" she screamed, forgetting formalities for a moment. "Watch out!"

Eriol looked up too late for Syaoran's attack already reached the mage's weak shield. The blast of lightning destroyed it and startled Eriol, causing him to fall towards the ground.

Tomoyo panicked and immediately played a high note on her flute followed by a string of gentler ones. Eriol levitated in the air as Tomoyo flew over to steady him until he could regain his breath and use his magic to make him fly again.

"Arigatou Tomoyo," Eriol said. "I don't think I can continue the battle. Li hit me harder than I thought."

Concern flashed in Tomoyo's amethyst eyes as she lowered Eriol and herself on the ground. She called out to Sakura and Syaoran, who were still floating up in the air watching them, to help her help Eriol.

"Does anything hurt Hiiragiawa-kun?" Tomoyo asked him as she lay him down on the ground. "Do I have to call Madame Pomfrey to bring you to the clinic?"

Eriol smiled at her. "I'm fine." He gave her a scrutinizing look and spoke again. "Did I hear you shout out my first name before Syaoran almost killed me?" Tomoyo blushed and nodded. "You can call me that. I'd rather call you Tomoyo-chan anyway," he informed her as closed his eyes to rest.

"Eriol-kun is much easier to say than Hiiragizawa-kun," she smiled. "You just had to pick a long name."

"Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura's shrill voice echoed in the Quidditch field as she ran towards her two raven-haired. "Oh no! We killed him! Syaoran-kun, how could you?"

"I'm not quite dead, Sakura-chan," Eriol told her as he tried to sit up. "Although your boyfriend hates me, I don't think he'd kill me just yet. I think he just wanted me unconscious."

Syaoran glared at him and helped him up.

"Since my magic is drained and I can't stand up, I guess I'll just have to tell you about your magic instead of training you in it," Eriol said as he sat up on his bed to face Tomoyo. They were in the boy's dormitory since Madame Pomfrey ordered him to stay in bed. Tomoyo didn't care the least if going to the boy's dorm was not allowed and neither did Eriol.

Tomoyo grinned. "At least I don't get injured by this," she told him as Eriol gave a laugh. "So, what's the deal with Orpheus?"

"Of course you have heard his tragic love story," Eriol started, "about how he lost his love due to a thoughtless glance. After he lost Eurydice, he wrote a book, which is now forever lost, about the power he possessed. There were numerous songs and chants that could only be used with your sort of magic. Clow was able to own it for a while but he died before he was able to finish reading it."

"That's too bad. So what's it got to do with me?" Tomoyo asked. "If we don't have the book, that means it's gone. There's nothing we can do about it. If Clow accidentally destroyed it . . ."

"Clow didn't accidentally destroy it," Eriol sighed. "He hid it. He wanted to hide it from evil hands. There are some songs and chants that are too dangerous to be used. It would be much better if we would be able to get our hands on it before someone evil does."

Tomoyo rolled her eyes and sighed. "You're being paranoid again, Eriol-kun," she groaned. "First, you have to check what I eat. Now, you have this crazy notion that someone might use my powers for evil purposes."

Before Eriol could answer, inhuman shrieks erupted from the bedroom door. They turned to see four boys, who are Eriol's roommates looking at them oddly.

"What is she doing here?" a pale raven-haired boy, who they recognized as Terry Boot, squeaked. "She's not allowed here!"

Eriol gave a tired sigh and looked at Tomoyo. "It's as if they've never seen a girl before. Do you want to leave and continue tomorrow?"

Tomoyo grinned. "It seems that I'm not wanted." She stood up from the bed and was about to leave when she decided to create some trouble for her mentor. She turned around and kissed him lightly on the lips. "Bye Eriol!" she said impishly, and airily walked pass the astounded boys and the door. Eriol merely stared after her.

"Okaaaaaaaaay," another boy called Clark Baker said. "What was that all about Clow Reed?"

Eriol snapped out of his daze and smiled uncertainly at his roommates. "I'm not Clow Reed and that was nothing."

"Sure it was nothing," a blonde boy said as he took out a book and fixed the glasses on top of his nose. "It might be nothing to you but being kissed by a pretty girl such as her is something to us."

Eriol smiled again and assured them that nothing had happened although he knew for a fact that none of them had believed him. I'll get you for this Tomoyo Daidouji, he thought darkly.

A/N: Here is the sixth chapter to The Key to her Heart. Actually, I already changed the name to Lure of Song since I decided that the previous title was very pathetic. Key to her Heart? Ha! I can't believe that I actually used that title for my first five chapters.

How do you like the start of E+T here? I am absolutely neutral about it. I don't hate it nor do I love it.

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